Post-Deportation Human Rights Project:
Interdisciplinary Participatory Action Research
Publications and Academic and Community-based Presentations
Fall 2007- Spring 2012
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Publications
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Brabeck, K.M., Lykes, M.L.B. & Hershberg, R. (2011). Framing immigration to and deportation from the United States: Central American immigrants make meaning of their experiences. Community, Work, & Family .
2.
Brabeck, K.M. & Xu, Q. (2010). The impact of detention and deportation on
Latino immigrant children and families: A quantitative exploration. Hispanic
Journal of Behavioural Sciences, 32, 341-361 .
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Xu, Q. & Brabeck, K.M. (in press). Service utilization among undocumented
Latino immigrant families. Social Work Research .
4.
Post-deportation Human Rights Project [PDHRP]. (2010). Proyecto Post-
Deportación de Derechos Humanos: Reporte annual 2009/2010 Post-Deportation
Human Rights Project: Annual report 2009/2010]. Available from http://www.bc.edu/content/dam/files/centers/humanrights/pdf/PDHRPAnnualRep ortSpanishV3.pdf
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Post-deportation Human Rights Project [PDHRP]. (2009). Manteniendo a las familias conectadas: Reporte anual 2008/2009 [Keeping families connected:
Annual report 2008/2009]. Available from http://www.bc.edu/centers/humanrights/metaelements/ pdf/PDHRPAnnualReport.pdf
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Lykes, M.B., McDonald, E., & Boc, C. (2012). The Post-Deportation Human Rights
Project: Participatory action research with Maya transnational families. Practicing
Anthropology, 34 (1), 22-26
Presentations: Symposia and Posters
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Symposium (3-6 August 2011). Exploring the effects of detention and deportation on mixed-status transnational families through interdisciplinary participatory and action research. Annual Meeting of the American Psychological
Association, Washington, DC. Including the following papers: a.
Brabeck, K.M., Lykes, M.B., Hershberg, R., & Xu, Q. Qualitative and quantitative explorations of the impact of detention and deportation on
Latino immigrant families.
1 For more information or copies of presentations, please contact M. Brinton Lykes, Co‐Director of the
PDHRP, at lykes@bc.edu
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b.
Lykes, M.B., Leon Parra, J.M., & Johansen, Y. Immigrant Families’
Experiences of Detention and Deportation: Generating Organizing and
Change through Interdisciplinary Participatory Action Research. c.
Hunter, C., Lykes, M.B., & Brabeck, K.M. Exploring parent-child communication in the context of threat: Mixed-status families facing detention and deportation. d.
Boc, C. & Black, K. Immigrant Families’ Experiences of Detention and Deportation: Generating Education and Organizing through Participatory Know Your Rights Workshops e.
Discussant: Patricia Foxen, PhD. Associate Director, Research, National
Council of LA RAZA, Washington, DC
2.
Multidisciplinary PhD Research Development Day, Boston College, Chestnut Hill,
MA. (2011, February) a.
Poster: McDonald, E., & Lykes, M.B. (2011, February ). Exploring the discourse of children “left behind” by migration. b.
Poster: Hunter, C., & Alvarez-Keesee, A. From a Child’s Perspective:
Understanding detention, deportation and familial roots from children of undocumented immigrants.
3.
Lykes, M. B., Hershberg, R., & Brabeck, K. (2010, June). Methodological challenges in participatory-action research with Central American immigrants. Paper presented at The Ethics and Politics of Research with Immigrant Populations , Minneapolis,
MN.
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Hershberg, R., & Lykes, M.B. (2010, April). Narrating border crossings: An exploration of Central American adolescents’ experiences with transnationalism and the U.S. Deportation System. Paper to be presented at
Boston College’s Graduate
Scholarship Symposium
5.
Lykes, M.B., Brabeck, K.M. & Hershberg, R. (2009, October). An exploration of the effects of deportation on Guatemalan & Salvadoran families. Paper presented at
Undocumented Hispanic Migration, Connecticut College, New London, CT.
6.
Brabeck, K.M., Lykes, M.B., Kanstroom, D., & Hershberg, R. (2009, August)
Interdisciplinary Participatory Action Research with Central American Immigrant
Families: Methodological Challenges, Complexities, and Contributions. In M. Gergen
(Chair), Qualitative methodology as a generative choice . Symposium conducted at
Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association , Toronto, Canada.
7.
Lykes, M.B. & Brabeck, K.M. (2009, June). Acercándonos a los efectos psicosociales de la inmigración y la deportación . Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of
Sociedad Interamericana de Psicología, Guatemala, Guatemala .
8.
Brabeck, K.M. & Hershberg, R. (2009, January). An Exploration of the Effects of
Deportation on Central American Immigrant Children and Families: Findings and
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Future Directions for Research. In M.B. Lykes (Chair), Community as a place for healing: Interdisciplinary work to build collective efficacy among immigrant and refugee communitie s . Symposium conducted at annual meeting of the National
Multicultural Summit and Conference , New Orleans, LA.
9.
Brabeck, K.M., Lykes, M.B., & Kanstroom, D. (2008, November). Migración,
Deportación, y Derechos Humanos: La Investigación Acción Participativa del
Proyecto Pos-Deportación. Paper presented at fifth meeting of Congreso
Internacional sobre Migraciones y Desarrollo , Guatemala, Guatemala.
10.
Symposium: M.B. Lykes & D. Kanstroom (Chairs), Understanding the impact of deportation on families and communities: Towards a collaborative, interdisciplinary transnational intervention pre-and post-deportation. Annual Meeting, New England
Council on Latin American Studies , Providence, Rhode Island. Papers included: a.
Brabeck, K.M., Xu, Q., Lykes, M.B. & Hershberg, R. The impact of deportation on Central American immigrant children and families:
Preliminary findings and next steps b.
Discussant, Anibal Lucas Organización Maya K’iche’ (OMK).
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Symposium: (2008, October). Qingwen Xu. (Chair), Understanding and addressing the impact of deportation on Mexican & Central American immigrant families and communities: Towards a collaborative, interdisciplinary intervention pre-and postdeportation. Annual Meeting Institute for the Promotion of Race and Culture , Boston
College, Chestnut Hill, MA. Papers included: a.
Lykes, M.B., & Kanstroom, D. Deportation, Post-Deportation, and Human
Rights: Developing Activist Scholarship through Community-University
Collaborations. b.
Holper, M., & Valdez, M. Legal Work within the Participatory Action
Research Context. c.
Lucas, A. Organización Maya K’iche’ (OMK).Deportation, Post-
Deportation, and Human Rights: Developing Activist Scholarship through
Community-University Collaborations.
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Brabeck, K.M., Lykes, M.B, Kanstroom, D., Holper, M. & Hershberg, R. (2008,
June). Immigrant families’ experiences of deportation: Participatory action research as a resource for generating understanding, organizing, and change. Paper presented at Children & Migration, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA.
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